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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journals of the Continental Congress --FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1785.
Congress assembled. Present as yesterday.1
[Note 1: 1 On this day, according to the indorsement, a report was delivered in by the Committee appointed January 21 on the letters of Edward Fox and John Brown Cutting. It was adopted verbatim on February 7.]
The Committee consisting of [Mr. Zephaniah Platt, Mr. James McHenry and Mr. Samuel Hardy] to whom was referred the "address of the Corporation of the Chamber of commerce of the State of New York," beg leave to report the following answers.
That the Secretary of Congress inform the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, That the United States in Congress Assembled have received with pleasure peculiar satisfaction the address of so respectable a body of citizens, that they are duly impressed with a sense of their dispositions to render the sessions of Congress convenient and agreeable and to assure them that the extension and prosperity of trade shall not cease to be considered as intimately connected with the happiness and prosperity of the United States of America,
That the Secretary of Congress, inform "the artificers, tradesmen, and mechanics of the City of New York" that their cordial welcome and expressions of confidence could not fail to be agreeably received by the United States in Congress assembled, and that while Congress acknowledge the goodness of divine Providence in concluding the American Revolution, they experience additional gratitude in contemplating the happiness of those persons who have suffered so severely by the calamities of war.2
[Note 2: 2 This report, in the writing of James McHenry, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 20, I, folio 411. The address, dated January 11, is in No. 43, folio 343, See post, February 18.]
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